Ronan Fitzgerald

Pleased to say my novel made the long list for @bridportprize.bsky.social this year, and an excerpt features in the anthology. I'm querying agents at the moment and also was one of the winners of @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Novel Fair 2025, so get in touch if you know any agents looking.

Arteta forgot to stage a hijacking on the bus to Fleetwood and standards plummeted as a result.

it’s not really baffling or embarrassing, but in about 2015 i was sitting next to an old guy on a PC, and he didn’t know how to use a mouse. He had in fact overestimated how it worked - he was picking it up and pointing it at the screen and gesturing. like a Wii.

Incredible question. Circa 2012 I worked for a large well known telecommunications company, my only private sector job ever, and a person from the ad department sent me an ad that linked out but with no link. They asked me what a link is.

My self-care ritual is getting a beard trim then going to Smoking Goat because it's two mins away from barber.

Enjoying Silver Pines on PS5. Another Twin Peaks homage but has a nice feeling of old point and click games, good atmosphere and soundtrack too.

A nice pleasant sacking.

The I Claudius theme tune is fucking weird also. Sounds like it should soundtrack a seventies badminton highlight show.

Somehow evoking the aura of romantic poet Ryan Giggs in the crisis press conference didn't have the desired effect.

Isak run in front of the man challenge

If only Carrick had called Man United "the football club" fifty times instead of forty in his press conference they'd be winning now.

'Regent's Canal' (2022) by Chris Thompson instagram.com/cthompson_art

The philosophy of Tony Pulis.

I keep getting ads for a new Apple TV drama starring Stephen Graham? Anyway what I know you'll all want me to deduce is that Stephen Graham plays a man whose world falls apart when other people realise he (character played by Stephen Graham) is a murderer.

Bad result for City, but they only need another 200 points to secure safety.

Did everyone else know about this? The commentator just said Exeter City versus Hashtag United and this was the first I'd heard.

The age of cosplaying your own ethnicity. Also 🤢.

Liverpool FC.

Andy Burnham: "we all enjoy a bar of Tony's but the lack of normal squares needs to be addressed"

The best strategy would prob be just vote for someone nobody thinks it is for no reason and say this is why.

The Moral Maze: is Maya getting zero votes because she is beautiful?

They could vote off half a rotten turnip and someone would be like "such an INTELLIGENT person, oh my god, just like wow"

If someone said "it's this wine glass, this wine glass is a traitor", Joanne would be like "I've hadsssh my suspishsshions, yah"

The best longer nights album of all time getting its first autumn spin.

Forgot to announce I got a little wooden stand for my large adult seasoning mills.

Will ponder life for a few minutes before dinner.

Just passed someone out for a run in this London weather. You have to respect it. Not with sixty five people working in Fintech either.

I've been saying this for years.

this should do it. the problem for the last 15 years is not enough people have emphasised that Manchester United is Manchester United

None of this is about what happens at clubs. It's about people's addiction to online discourse. Giving out leaflets telling people to stay silent is just another form of that addiction.

mad how in a newspaper vox pop about people being rude on public transport someone manages to say 'psychological safety'

Jerry is great imo.

Describing Bash as very outspoken is like describing a lemon as very sweet.

Miranda Hart not Miranda Brain.